Northern Ireland’s apartheid

Northern Ireland has barely featured in international headlines since the 1998 peace accord was signed, but in the seemingly quiet years since then, segregation in daily life has worsened. A longstanding political conflict has been reclassified as an ethnic division.

by Cédric Gouverneur

Ballymena is a prosperous town of 30,000 people, 80% of them Protestant and 20% Catholic . The most recent police figures record that there were 80 sectarian incidents in the town between April and August 2005. Harryville Catholic church, which is in a Protestant area, has been attacked with (...)